Public Procurement Regulation in Africa, Geo Quinot & Sue Arrowsmith (Eds.) : book announcement

• Author: U. Botha
• DOI: 10.10520/EJC166182
• Published date: 01 January 2014
• Date: 01 January 2014
• Pages: 393-394

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Boekaankondigings/Book Announcements

Public Procurement Regulation in Africa

edited by

GEO QUINOT & SURE ARROWSMITH

Cambridge University Press 2013 xvii plus 429 pages

Price: $124.00 USD

1Introduction

Geo Quinot and Sue Arrowsmith are the editors of the book Public

Procurement Regulation in Africa. Geo Quinot is Professor of Law in the

Department of Public Law at Stellenbosch University, where he is also

Director of African Public Procurement Regulation Research Unit and Co-

Director of Socio-Economic Rights and Administrative Justice Research

Project.

Sue Arrowsmith is Achilles Professor of Public Procurement Law and

Policy at the University of Nottingham, where she is also Director of the

Public Procurement research Group and of the postgraduate Executive

Programme in the Procurement Law and Policy.

The book deals with Public Procurement as a field of law. Public

Procurement deals with the whole process through which governments

deal with the acquiring of goods and services from the time of identifying

a need for goods and services to the conclusion of a contract with a

supplier.

The purpose of the book is to provide foundations for future research

on African procurement regulation, to form the basis for specific

research and teaching programmes and finally to provide a platform for

African scholars to develop research partnerships and gain access to

broader international scholarships.

The countries that were selected for discussion in this book are,

Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South

Africa and Zimbabwe. The other authors of the book are all experts in

the field of Public Procurement from the respective countries.

2Strengths

The book has a very practical and well thought-out systematic approach

to explaining the dynamics of procurement in Africa. It is divided into

two parts. Part one deals with the regulatory frameworks on public

procurement from each country that was selected. The regulatory

frameworks of all the countries are discussed under the following